In these days, many universities fund their libraries and other academic facilities so they help to prepare their students academically and help their graduates find jobs. I object that university athletic departments should receive the same amount of funding as university libraries. Main purpose of university is providing the higher education and universities should cover more student’s needs. Therefore, universities should invest more money to university libraries.
To start with, the ultimate purpose of university is providing the higher education to their students. Studying outweighs playing sports because they want to be smarter to success. In modern society, sports are considered as waste time or killing time activities. So if students focused on academics, they perform better. For example, the university which used more funds to their athletic departments built more facilities in the school. Their students started to use the facilities but also they were losing their time to study. Thus, the students’ grade were getting lower and losing their university’s appearance. Eventually, the appliers who want to study in their university change their mind to other universities because of their university’s appearance. Thus, university needs to focus more on their study environment.
In addition, universities should receive students’ requirement. These days, Students have many problems to solve by themselves. So the money should be spent to help the most students. For instance, most of students are pressed by tuition fees or personal expenses. Many students are having part-time jobs to earn money so naturally they are losing their time to study. Their universities are giving scholarships to student who has great grades or lives in poor environment. However, their scholarships are too small to help their student. So if their universities were increasing scholarships, they can help more students. Instead of spending time to work, the students can spend their time to study and get better grade. Likewise, students can decrease their problems from help of their universities.
To summarize, I definitely disagree that universities should give the same amount of funds to students’ sports activities as they do to their libraries. Because universities’ main purpose is providing the higher education to students and universities also should cover more students’ needs. For these reasons, I am against that university athletic departments should receive the same amount of funding as university libraries.